Hey all,
I just got a new Lenovo y720 laptop and installed a Samsung Evo 960 SSD. Unfortunately I had no idea what I was doing when I was trying to migrate the OS to the SSD and I messed things up.
I used the Samsung Migration tool to copy everything from the HDD to the SSD. Then I went into Disk Management and set the SSD online despite a signature collision. I booted up into BIOS and set the Evo as my boot drive. Then everything booted up fine and dandy so I went into Disk Management and deleted the partition on the HDD. I noticed after this that the SSD was oddly slow for an Evo so I ran a benchmark and got some terrible results. So, I downloaded Samsung Magician and voila, it doesn't even recognize my drive.
Long story short, I looked into this issue and it appears to be due to my BIOS not being set to AHCI. Unfortunately, when I go into BIOS and set it to AHCI, my drive doesn't boot. Apparently I have to wipe my SSD and reinstall Windows.
I'm not looking to do a registry edit or any sort of hack because I just got this computer and there's literally nothing on it. I just want to know step-by-step, how to do this the proper way- I can only find instructions to do hacks and stuff online.
Do I literally just click Reset My PC and everything will be fine and dandy? Or do I have to wipe the SSD somehow (no idea how to do this properly so please tell me), boot into BIOS, set it to AHCI, and then boot from a USB (never done this before)? Or is there some other way that I'm missing? Sorry if this stuff is obvious.
I just got a new Lenovo y720 laptop and installed a Samsung Evo 960 SSD. Unfortunately I had no idea what I was doing when I was trying to migrate the OS to the SSD and I messed things up.
I used the Samsung Migration tool to copy everything from the HDD to the SSD. Then I went into Disk Management and set the SSD online despite a signature collision. I booted up into BIOS and set the Evo as my boot drive. Then everything booted up fine and dandy so I went into Disk Management and deleted the partition on the HDD. I noticed after this that the SSD was oddly slow for an Evo so I ran a benchmark and got some terrible results. So, I downloaded Samsung Magician and voila, it doesn't even recognize my drive.
Long story short, I looked into this issue and it appears to be due to my BIOS not being set to AHCI. Unfortunately, when I go into BIOS and set it to AHCI, my drive doesn't boot. Apparently I have to wipe my SSD and reinstall Windows.
I'm not looking to do a registry edit or any sort of hack because I just got this computer and there's literally nothing on it. I just want to know step-by-step, how to do this the proper way- I can only find instructions to do hacks and stuff online.
Do I literally just click Reset My PC and everything will be fine and dandy? Or do I have to wipe the SSD somehow (no idea how to do this properly so please tell me), boot into BIOS, set it to AHCI, and then boot from a USB (never done this before)? Or is there some other way that I'm missing? Sorry if this stuff is obvious.